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AFFIRM

Formerly: Staples Marketing

Kind
Creative generalist
Country
US
Website
https://affirmagency.com
Clients
Wisconsin Department of Health Services · Wisconsin Department of Justice · Wisconsin Department of Transportation

Campaigns (2)

CampaignClientYearTopicRole
Wisconsin 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline awareness campaign
USAspending subawards to Staples Marketing under DHS's 988 grants: USD 150,000 (1 Apr 2023, WI 988 Cooperative Agreement), USD 104,000 '988 Messaging CDS' (Sep 2024), USD 300,000 '988 Messaging Improvement' (Oct 2024). Role inferred from '988 messaging'.
Wisconsin Department of Health Services2023Suicide preventionCreative
Dose of Reality
BizTimes (8 May 2017): AFFIRM received the BMA Best of Show for its work on the DOJ Dose of Reality campaign.
Wisconsin Department of Justice2017OpioidsCreative

Research notes

Pewaukee, Wisconsin. Founded 1985 as Staples Marketing and renamed AFFIRM in 2015 (per a third-party directory; BizTimes confirms the Pewaukee base and the Staples Marketing name). Federal subaward records still use the Staples Marketing name. Created 2026-10-22 from USAspending subaward records. affirmagency.com is behind a Cloudflare block (not opened).

Sources

  1. https://biztimes.com/?p=467662
  2. https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_H79FG001155_075

Record agencies/affirm-agency.json, updated 2026-10-22